Why I don't care about migrants crossing the Channel (and neither should you)

Approximately 20,000 migrants have crossed from France to Britain

We have bought in about 4 million people via airplane

so that is a difference of 3,980,000

What you find about the immgiraiton debate is that it is full of outright lies, people hiding their real feelings (white nationalism, fear of Islam etc) and people looking for very short term political wins

4 million as in Afghans or EU migrants 😕

What on earth are you on about lmao?

And 17 million have crossed from Ireland.

Asylum and immigration are two different things.

Immigrants are generally mildly skilled at a minimum, refugees are deprived and uneducated quite often. Asylum applications are around the 40,000 per year mark.

Refugees (bar translators and the like) are generally of little value to us and given our poor policy regarding allowing multiculturalism I can't say I want most of them here.

"As of February 2015, 113,960 working-age claimants of Department for Work and Pensions benefits were EU migrants (that is, when they first registered for a National Insurance Number, they were a national of another member state). This represents 2.2% of total claimants. Most of these were claiming an “out of work benefit” such as Jobseekers Allowance. However, the total includes some benefits, such as Housing Benefit and Disability Living Allowance, which can be paid to those in or out of work.

As of March 2014 317,800 families who were in receipt of tax credits, 6.8% of total claimants, contained at least one adult who was an EU national at NINo registration. For comparison, those born in the EU (outside the UK) make up about 6% of the working age population."

EU migrants here are legal immigrants, not asylum seekers. I'm unsure what your point is here.

You say refugees are an economic burden but we have approximately 150,000 EU migrants on benefits.

You say refugees are an economic burden

but

we have approximately 150,000 EU migrants on benefits.

I care about criminal gangs exploiting people, and this is one example but not the only one.

EU migrants are also ethno-culturally 'one of us' generally and absorbed within a generation or two.

This is the most important part, I think. The real issue with many of those who come from radically different cultures like for example those from Islamic cultures is they don’t integrate they just form enclaves. Its why I like the Danish (iirc) law which said only a certain % of the population can be non-native to stop the kind of ethnic enclaves we see in every major UK city.

Indeed but that is out of an EU migrant population in the millions. EU migrants are also ethno-culturally 'one of us' generally and absorbed within a generation or two.

Approximately 20,000 migrants have crossed from France to Britain

We have bought in about 4 million people via airplane

so that is a difference of 3,980,000

What you find about the immgiraiton debate is that it is full of outright lies, people hiding their real feelings (white nationalism, fear of Islam etc) and people looking for very short term political wins